Artysta w kręgu mitów późnej nowoczesności
The Artist in The Circle of Myth of Late Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The author – referencing the thought by Chantal Delsol – uses the term“late modernity”, recognizing in subsequent after-the-Enlightenment periods subsequent phases of modernity. Among countless myths of after-modernity he chose two: about acquiring the knowledge of the world and immortality, which, in his opinion, influenced the condition of a modern artistin the strongest way. In conclusions the author notices that the biggestweakness of modernity (in contrary to its self-assessment) is impossibilityto build a consistent image of reality, which is a result of lack of originality.Creators of modern culture specialized in theft of ideas of their predecessors, and out of context foreign fragment may be presented by them asa fruit of their own reflections. The weakness of modernity, displaying inits morbid tendency to reduction, became its strength: it is impossible tobuild a whole from the fragments, but with small fragments a whole maybe infected. The success of modernity turned out to be, then, a success ofa virus spreading from period to period.

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